Tara oversees materials acquisition at an HVAC company, and she raised some concerns about year-to-year increases in direct materials cost, and she would like to use analytics to help determine why this happened. What can Tara do in order to answer this question?
A) She can look at different attributes of her supplier origins, such as by region or supplier.
B) She could chart the price in each region and compare.
C) She could try to obtain bids from new vendors.
D) She could use a pie chart to demonstrate the region with the largest change.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This question requires familiarity with different types of analytics and to recognize that Tara needs to use diagnostic analytics to answer an implied "Why?" question. Choice A is correct because she is investigating different attributes of the data, such as region of origin or supplier. The remaining choices are incorrect because they try to answer questions unrelated to the one Tara is investigating, and in those situations, she might use a different type of analysis.

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